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Obama mocks O’Brien’s Fugitive Slave Act comparison in healthcare speech
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| Last Edited | RBH Sep 27, 2013 03:50pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Concord Monitor |
| News Date | Thursday, September 26, 2013 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Obama took a potshot today at New Hampshire state Rep. Bill O’Brien over his comparison of Obamacare to the 19th century Fugitive Slave Act.
At an Aug. 1 rally in Concord, O’Brien, a Mont Vernon Republican and former House speaker who at the time was considering a run for Congress, criticized Obama’s 2010 healthcare reform law.
“What is Obamacare? It is a law as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, that allowed slaveowners to come to New Hampshire and seize African-Americans and use the federal courts to take them back to ... slave states,” O’Brien said.
Obama referenced O’Brien, though not by name, in a speech today at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, while speaking about Republican opposition to implementation of the healthcare law. |
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